by John Kennedy Toole · Penguin Classics · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780141023465
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Dive into the hilarious and satirical world of 'A Confederacy of Dunces' by John Kennedy Toole. This classic novel follows the misadventures of the eccentric Ignatius J. Reilly in New Orleans, an unforgettable character on a crusade against modernity and ignorance. With biting humor and endearing characters, this masterpiece will have you laughing out loud while reflecting on society and the human condition.
John Kennedy Toole was an American novelist from New Orleans, Louisiana, whose posthumously published novel, A Confederacy of Dunces, won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1981. At 16 in 1954, he wrote his first novel, The Neon Bible, which he shelved in the same year, not finding a willing publisher; he later dismissed it as "adolescent". Toole was a successful and popular professor, first at University of Southwestern Louisiana, then Hunter College, and finally St. Mary's Dominican College in New Orleans. Having persuaded Simon & Schuster, however, to accept A Confederacy of Dunces, he was unable to resolve editorial disputes. Due in part to the novel's failure, he suffered from paranoia and depression, dying by suicide at the age of 31.
